Does the Bible teach that if one commits suicide, Christian or unbeliever, one goes to hell?

In Matthew 12:8-11, Jesus tells the Pharisees, "I, the Son of Man, am the Lord of the Sabbath, and it is right that I should help the sheep that have fallen into the pit at that time." So, while the millennial reign is the Sabbath of Yahuwah on His white throne, His Son Jesus is prophesied to be the Sabbath Lord Advocate and High Priest in the task of redeeming the vast masses of humanity caught in sin and fallen into the pit called Sheol, helping those who were weak and committed suicide.

Resurrection of the Righteous and the Unrighteous

Acts 24:15 I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Jesus told a criminal sentenced to death: “You will be with me in Paradise.” The man was unrighteous​—a lawbreaker rather than a distraught suicide victim—​guilty by his own frank admission. (Luke 23:39-43) He had no hope of going to heaven to rule with Jesus. So the Paradise in which this thief could hope to come back to life would be the beautiful earth under the rule of Jehovah God’s Kingdom.​—Matthew 6:9, 10; Revelation 21:1-4. 

For what purpose will God awaken this criminal? So that He mercilessly can hold his past sins against him? Hardly, for Romans 6:7, 23 says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin,” and “the wages sin pays is death.” Although his past sins will not be accounted to him, he will still need the ransom to lift him to perfection.

Therefore, theologian Albert Barnes was wrong and misleading when he asserted: “Those who have done evil shall be raised up to be condemned, or damned. This shall be the object in raising them up; this the sole design.” How beneath a God of justice and love! Rather, a resurrection to life on a paradise earth will furnish this former criminal (and other unrighteous ones) a golden opportunity to be judged by what they do after their resurrection.​—1 John 4:8-10.

A Merciful Opportunity

Stunned friends of a suicide victim may thus take comfort in knowing that “Jehovah has shown mercy to those fearing him. For he himself well knows the formation of us, remembering that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:10-14) Only God can fully understand the role of mental sickness, extreme stress, even genetic defects, in a “suicidal crisis,” which, the National Observer noted, “is not a lifetime characteristic [but] often a matter only of minutes or of hours.”​—See Ecclesiastes 7:7.

1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!"

Job 1:21 And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind. Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of one's birth; 7 Surely oppression destroys a wise man's reason,

Jeremiah 20:17 Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me. 18 Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?

Granted, one who takes his own life deprives himself of the opportunity to repent of his self-murder. But who can say whether one driven to suicide might have had a change of heart had his fatal attempt failed? Some notorious murderers have, in fact, changed and earned God’s forgiveness during their lifetime.​—2 Kings 21:16; 2 Chronicles 33:12, 13.

Thus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” is within his right to extend mercy, even to some self-murderers, by resurrecting them and giving them the precious opportunity to “repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance.”​—Matthew 20:28; Acts 26:20. Cited here 

Christians are not the only ones who survive.

The reason to become a Christian is not to avoid going to hell, but to educate and govern the multitudes of the ungodly, the multitudes of humanity who did not know Christ and who will be resurrected with extenuating circumstances in the coming Millennial Kingdom. God will gather Christ the High Priest and his true disciples and appoint them to the priestly office. God will gather Christ the High Priest and His true disciples and appoint them to the priestly ministry, that is, they will do the work of atoning for and redeeming the sins of all mankind.

Matthew 11:21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Luke 11:31 The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

The Day of Judgment is the span of time when the Son of Man, Michael Jesus, is transferred from Yahuwah to rule over the Millennial Kingdom, and judgment by the 24 elders and the 144,000. The unbelievers of Sodom, Tyre , Sidon, the Queen of Sheba, and others will be resurrected. At that time, there may be a time when the great crowd belonging to the earth will also educate and lead the resurrected ungodly.

Ezekiel 16:53 "When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them, 54 that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them. 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.

Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem(People who rebelled against God's moral standards in all generations, including Old Testament times, and who were sinners with extenuating circumstances.) shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Some of the people who will be resurrected during the millennium appear to be a bit complicated barbarians who have defied God, but they have been corrected. And as the above scripture says that the inhabitants of Sodom will return, it can be said that those sinners who have suffered the judgment of the fire of Sodom and Gomorrah and are still judged to have extenuating circumstances will be resurrected to learn Christ.

Isaiah 66:19 I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.

Especially in Zechariah 14, even those who have attacked Jerusalem, in other words, those who have continuously defied God, are somehow forgiven for their sins in the above scripture, and will come to preach the real Jesus to the nations. If there is a possibility that even those hard-hearted people will be forgiven, it is an easy fact to assume that many deceased unbelievers, including Christians who committed suicide without knowing the true Christ, will be resurrected once again.

If he shows rebelliousness and tries to rule the earth as his own, the millennial kingdom that Jesus will rule will be a day of judgment that will "judge each one of us" as Ezekiel 18:30 says, so there may be some kind of punishment with the intention of admonishing a rebellious and hard-hearted people.  Is it the punishment for the lack of rain or pestilence in the book of Zechariah?

On the Biblical Implications of Rain

In Israel, the climate is divided into wet and dry seasons, with the wet season lasting from November to March (or mid-October to mid-April) and the dry season from May to September. Rainfall in October and November, when the rainy season begins, is called "autumn rain," while rainfall in March and April, when the rainy season ends, is called "spring rain. (Deut. 11:14-17) Christians are also compared to wheat. (Matt. 13:24-30, 36-40) Furthermore, James 5:7 also says, "Therefore, brethren, endure until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits patiently for the precious fruit of the earth, until the former rain and the latter rain." As it says, the increase of water sources in spring and fall is of great importance in Israel, which is symbolically represented as the descent of the Holy Spirit and the harvest of Christians.

The Holy Spirit of the Autumn Rain and the Holy Spirit of the Spring Rain
The prophecy of the autumn rain was fulfilled 2,000 years ago when Jesus, after His resurrection and ascension, gave the Holy Spirit on Pentecost to His disciples who gathered in Jerusalem and prayed with all their hearts for ten days. This caused 3,000 people to repent in one day in the early church, and many more souls received salvation thereafter. "When the day of Pentecost came and they were all gathered together as one, ... they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, ... and those who accepted Peter's words were baptized, and about 3,000 were added to their number that day." (Acts 2:1-47)

On the last day, when the Feast of Unleavened Bread was celebrated with the greatest festivity, Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, "Whoever is thirsty, let him come to me and drink that which I have given him of the Spirit; And the living water will flow from within him as a river." Jesus was referring to the "spirit" that those who believe in Him are about to receive. (John 7:37-39) "The 'Spirit' and the Bride say, 'Come! He who is thirsty, let him come. And whoever wants the water of life, let him drink without cost." (Revelation 22:17)

Knowing this about Israel's environment where water is precious, we can better understand the importance of Jesus' words, "I will give you water that you will never thirst forever" (Joh 4:14), and the words of the Holy Spirit and His Bride, who came as the Savior of the age of the Holy Spirit, "Come and receive the water of life" (Rev 22:17). Quote here

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you-- The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.

Matthew 5:45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Since the New Testament says that the Lord will give rain to the wicked, it can be said that there will be areas during the millennium where there will be no rain and it will not affect innocent individuals or animals. The blessing of rain throughout the millennial kingdom in Zechariah probably refers to the descent of the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Jesus.

The fall rain in the true revival of the first century is described by Peter in Acts 2:14, "14Then Peter stood up with the eleven and lifted up his voice and spoke to the people. He said, "I want you to know this, all you Jewish people and all who live in Jerusalem. I want you to know this, and to listen to what I say. 15For it is now nine o'clock in the morning, and these men are not drunk with wine, as you think. 16Nor is this anything other than what the prophet Joel had prophesied. 17 "Thus saith the Lord God. 17 "In the time of the end, I will pour out my spirit upon all men. And your sons and daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18And I will pour out my Spirit on my servants, male and female, at that time." and quoting Joel 2, the outpouring as the Holy Spirit has already been completed. The spring rain will be the descent of the Holy Spirit by the grace of God upon those who have not known Christ since the first century.

About the Animals of the Millennium

Thus, the true meaning is that if the resurrected unbelievers are rebellious and do not accept God, the Holy Spirit, which is likened to rain, will not fall, and the individual will be headed for a life of misery, pestilence, or even death. Even if the literal interpretation of the passage were to be interpreted to mean that the rain would temporarily stop or that pestilence would spread in order to warn the barbarians, ancient peoples, etc. of the Old Testament, the unrelated humans and animals would still be guaranteed a healthy life. Although this is within the realm of the imagination, there must be a clear division between those who can receive the blessings of the rain and those who cannot. Animals will also be miraculously protected by the heavenly priesthood of Jesus and Christians and moved to fertile lands with abundant water sources in a vast paradise.

➡A case in which the Old Covenant symbolically shows the future.

Daniel 4:10 "These were the visions of my head while on my bed: "I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great. 11 The tree grew and became strong; Its height reached to the heavens, And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth. 12 Its leaves were lovely, Its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, And all flesh was fed from it.

Isaiah 11:6 "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, The lion shall eat straw like the ox, And dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," Says the Lord.

Ezekiel 31:3 Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, With fine branches that shaded the forest, And of high stature; And its top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made it grow; Underground waters gave it height, With their rivers running around the place where it was planted, And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field. 5 'Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of water, As it sent them out. 6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And in its shadow all great nations made their home. 7 'Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

In Isaiah 11:6 and 65:25, Daniel 4, and Ezekiel 31, "all" animals in the vision of the paradise oasis are described as eating and drinking from the fruit of the tree of life and water and living harmoniously, so the earthly oasis will not be so greatly disturbed that the animals cannot eat and drink, but rather they will be able to live peacefully while having eternal life eating and drinking water and fruit of life. In Daniel 4, King Nebo dreams of a giant tree in paradise. In Ezekiel 31, Assyria is paralleled to it. 

Even if it is a figurative representation of the dream of the wicked Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and Assyria, the symbol of the kingdom, the giant tree seems at this stage to be a symbol of the tree of life that Satan has taken away through sin, and which they monopolize at the expense of others, as he boldly said he would give to the vicious power. But in the Millennial Kingdom, they will be taken back by Christ and fulfilled as the possessions of the righteous and animals, just as in the Golden Age during Solomon's reign.

Isaiah 65:21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat; For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 23 They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble; For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, And their offspring with them.

Ezekiel 17:22 Thus says the Lord God: "I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain. 23 On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Under it will dwell birds of every sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree(Rebellious authorities) and exalted the low tree(The oppressed people), dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it."

So, if there are some savages among the human race who have come back from the wounds of sin without knowing Christ, there will be a division, a marker, etc. to prevent them from receiving the blessings of the rain when they are checked by Jesus and the heavenly Christiansif they are hardened heart. Nevertheless, as it is said that all animals will be nourished by the tree of life, they will be moved and nourished by Jesus and heavenly Christians to a fertile land with abundant water and crops near a vast paradise oasis. This is the literal interpretation. 

However, after all, if they still behave defiantly after the resurrection, there will be a disruption of the safe order, so there may be some sanction to prevent them from behaving selfishly to make God's presence known to individuals only when they have no choice. However, by changing one's mind and coming to the New Jerusalem, one will be healed, according to the Book of Revelation. On the other hand, Isaiah 26:10 says of those who willfully act selfishly and continue to commit sins that cross the line during the temptation-free period when Satan is imprisoned, "The wicked man may be shown grace, but he never learns righteousness. He does iniquities in the land of honesty, and he does not recognize the excellencies of Yahuwah." These wicked men will be put to death during the Day of Judgment, and their death will be permanent. (Isaiah 65:20) Nevertheless, the earth will not be desolate and innocent animals and mankind will not suffer, and blessed rain and healthy peace will be found forever for the innocent beings.

Revelation 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

In the Millennial Kingdom, there will be various peoples, in need of healing. These peoples are not Christians. It refers to those who will become Christians. The Greek word ethnos is used to refer to the Gentiles, or unbelievers, as opposed to the Christians, the Israel of God. These nations are the resurrected people who do not know Christ and will be judged by Jesus and the Christians as to whether they can enter into this New Jerusalem and obtain the water of life during the Millennial Kingdom.

So, to finally get back on track, if those who will be resurrected include the deceased who died in sin, who died without knowing Christ in Sodom and Gomorrah, even more so, those who committed suicide because they were suffering from some temporary thought will definitely be resurrected. They are the nations in need of healing, the ethnos unbelievers, who will become believers and sons of God during the Millennial Kingdom.

Ruth 2:20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" And Naomi said to her, "This man is a relation of ours, one of our close relatives."

Psalms 103:3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 6 The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed. 7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. 9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

In the first place, since Christianity today is a cult created by the Roman Empire to enforce the politics of fear, there is a trend to threaten people with hell for heresy if they do not believe in orthodox doctrine.

Actually know God after being saved.

In Luke 10:25, Jesus explains that the pagan Samaritan were more righteous than the Jews who knew God because he saved a man who was being robbed. The Samaritans at this time had some mixed children with the pagan Assyrians, who had invaded and subdued apostate northern Israel and settled there for several hundred years. Jarabeam popularized the worship of the golden calf in northern Israel, and when it was destroyed, more and more Assyrian pagans settled in the area and the pagan worship practices, in which the names of various unclean gods were enumerated, completely penetrated the land. (1 Kings 12:28-33; 2 Kings 17:7-17, 24-41; 2 Chronicles 11:13-15; 13:8, 9) For more background on the Samaritans.

Furthermore, when the Jews returned to their land after the Babylonian captivity and began rebuilding the temple, the Samaritans tried to stop them. (Nehemiah 6:1-14) Finally, a Samaritan temple was built on Mount Gerizim to resist the Jerusalem temple, a practice that would have been a complete disaster from the perspective of modern Christianity, which conveniently mixes paganism and Judaism.

However, in his parable of the Kind Samaritan, Jesus emphasized that the righteous are those who act compassionately regardless of their filthy pagan background. This perspective has been lost on modern Christianity. The Jews in the parable were priests, and since the Law forbade them to touch a corpse, it is assumed that they did not want to touch a body that was about to die. But the pagans who gave priority to saving lives, even when it was against the law, were worthy in the eyes of God.

Of course, unbelievers and pagans who can actually act kind and gentle toward their neighbors are more righteous in God's eyes than those who cling to some unintelligible doctrine of divine righteousness and spread the words of evil spirits as orthodox doctrine. Thus, unbelievers and pagans who can help save other people's lives are more likely to be saved than those who are exclusive in their religious backgrounds. Therefore, many unbelievers and pagans who were willing to sacrifice themselves to save others and actually died because of it will be resurrected and blessed in the Garden of Eden in the future as more righteous in the eyes of God than Christians who are concerned with orthodox doctrine.

In the following scripture, Isaiah 11:3 emphasizes that the Lord Jesus does not judge only by superficial events but treats people fairly, so the suffering of those who committed suicide in their life backgrounds will also be more than taken into consideration. Furthermore, in Ezekiel 34:30, the people who have been abused will come to know God after they are rescued. It is not that they will be saved after knowing God, but that they will know God "after" they have been rescued by God, including those who have died without knowing the true God or committed suicide because they were oppressed and hurt by various factors, such as work environment, interpersonal relationships, etc. and found no hope in the existing Christian doctrines. 1 Timothy 2:4-6 also says, "It is God's will that every man be saved AND (then) come to an accurate knowledge of the truth." In short, after God's rescue, everyone who is saved accepts God and becomes a believer. In conclusion, the Bible does not clearly explain that the suicides who have died the first death are now in hell, but on the contrary, they have a future full of hope in which they will be resurrected and receive mercy.